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irene, his lovely wife, talked about the event. chaplain black, security officers who were there with him minutes before he passed away, before he dieded, he shook the hands of friends and crest the family who surrounded him. he thanked the doctors. he thanked the nurses for their care and attention. he thanked his security detail for the careful protection over the years. dan inouye wrote notes detailing his last wishing minutes before he passed away working until mere moments before his death. he told his wife, irene, that he would appreciate my speaking before you today, a gesture that touches my heart more than words that i can express. then he said aloha and quietly joined the lord. he had faced death many times, especially during that awful war that he was fighting in. he would often tell us, told me on many occasions, that during his life, he had just been lucky. he always said, just lucky, but dan inouye was not lucky. dan inouye was a blessed man. he had work to do here morning us -- among us, and he stayed until that work
irene, his lovely wife, talked about the event. chaplain black, security officers who were there with him minutes before he passed away, before he dieded, he shook the hands of friends and crest the family who surrounded him. he thanked the doctors. he thanked the nurses for their care and attention. he thanked his security detail for the careful protection over the years. dan inouye wrote notes detailing his last wishing minutes before he passed away working until mere moments before his...
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these not ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> irene, ken, mr. president, mr. vice president. you america has just been through some very painful days and mr. president, were all grateful for giving voice as you have two or agony. senator reid has said so eloquently, dan inouye lives a full, long life and so it is our great honor to come here to celebrate it. i am grateful that so many of his colleagues in the senate on both parties, leaders and members of the house and administration and especially members of the diplomatic corps has come because i hope ms sure service we can capture character and contribution of one of the most remarkable american i have ever known. you know, it is difficult to be in politics and be courageous without being sanctimonious. it is difficult to be a gallant man in politics without seeming pompous. and it is difficult to constantly reach out for common ground without wondering if you left your principles behind. but dan inouye did all this and more. those of us who knew him can be grateful for so many thing. for hillary and me he was first and fo
these not ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> irene, ken, mr. president, mr. vice president. you america has just been through some very painful days and mr. president, were all grateful for giving voice as you have two or agony. senator reid has said so eloquently, dan inouye lives a full, long life and so it is our great honor to come here to celebrate it. i am grateful that so many of his colleagues in the senate on both parties, leaders and members of the house and...
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vice president, lovely irene kamas tragic events in recent days to reminders, often when death visits, he comes to send a plane crash, takes many from us, abb drowns, cancer deprives us of a sibling or friend. an accident steals away child. lives are cut short. dreams are denied. often that is so troubling. we ask why, why him? why her quirks way now? and although i wish i could answer those questions with authority, often the wife of death is a mystery. but in the case of senator daniel inouye, there is some mystery and although there is sadness, there is no regret. ecclesiasticus, third chap here come the second verse tells us come commit to everything there is the season and come a time every purpose, a time to be born and a time to die with daniel inouye's time. senator inouye lived a full and his life. he was 88 years old when he died and he lived each of those 88 years to its salus. he was a war hero, decorated soldier who let the innocence of youth, most of his right arm on an italian battlefield, where he defended our nation's freedom even as the nation questioned patriots who
vice president, lovely irene kamas tragic events in recent days to reminders, often when death visits, he comes to send a plane crash, takes many from us, abb drowns, cancer deprives us of a sibling or friend. an accident steals away child. lives are cut short. dreams are denied. often that is so troubling. we ask why, why him? why her quirks way now? and although i wish i could answer those questions with authority, often the wife of death is a mystery. but in the case of senator daniel...
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well, i don't know if senator inouye ever got it for his wife, irene. but i say to my colleagues today, at an appropriate time, in behalf of the women of the united states senate, i will present this pin to mrs. inouye in honor of her husband. our gift to her because he gave so many gifts to us. he was a lion in the senate, a real american hero. though gentle in style, he was a fierce warrior when it came to fighting for his nation or standing up for hawaii. when he received his medal of honor, he was rising to the call of the sirens at pearl harbor, volunteering to serve his country, putting aside his own dreams to be a physician. but he went on to be a healer of many wounds. he was decorated in world war ii for saving his fellow soldiers. my experience with senator inouye as a friend was that he was a devoted, dedicated public servant. he was hawaii's first representative of the nation's newest state. he was the first person of japanese heritage ever to be elected to the senate. imagine. he himself knew what it was like to break barriers and to break
well, i don't know if senator inouye ever got it for his wife, irene. but i say to my colleagues today, at an appropriate time, in behalf of the women of the united states senate, i will present this pin to mrs. inouye in honor of her husband. our gift to her because he gave so many gifts to us. he was a lion in the senate, a real american hero. though gentle in style, he was a fierce warrior when it came to fighting for his nation or standing up for hawaii. when he received his medal of honor,...
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my thoughts are with his family, including his wife irene, his son ken, their daughter mancheska, a stepdaughter jennifer and a granddaughter maggie, named after, of course, his first wife. their loss is the nation's loss. last night, we lost a noble soul. dan inouye lived a long and productive life. still i speak for dan's senate family when i say we're devastated by his passing. but we will all miss him. his legacy will live in the halls of the senate and the state of hawaii as long as history is written. his place in the history books will not fade. as the second-longest serving senator in our history, senator inouye's career in congress spanned the life of hawaii's statehood, elected to the senate in 1962. only robert byrd served longer. senator inouye's tradition of service began long before he came to the united states senate. he was working as a medical volunteer when japanese warplanes attacked pearl harbor. he was just a boy, a teenager. from the time he was just a kid, he wanted to be a doctor, a medical doctor, but a different fate awaited dan inouye. after the attack, as we all know
my thoughts are with his family, including his wife irene, his son ken, their daughter mancheska, a stepdaughter jennifer and a granddaughter maggie, named after, of course, his first wife. their loss is the nation's loss. last night, we lost a noble soul. dan inouye lived a long and productive life. still i speak for dan's senate family when i say we're devastated by his passing. but we will all miss him. his legacy will live in the halls of the senate and the state of hawaii as long as...
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irene, his wife, talked about the solemnity of the event. the chaplain, security officers were there with him. minutes before he pass away, before he died, he shook the hands of friends and the family who surrounded him. he thanked the doctors, thank the nurses for their care and attention. he thanked his security detail for their protection over the years. he wrote notes detailing his blast which is minutes will 40 away.wayed told his wife, irene, i would appreciate my speaking before you today pink, a gesture that touches my heart more than words that i can express. then he said aloha, and he quietly toward the lord. if had faced death many times and especially during the war he was fighting. he would often tell us, told me on many occasions, that during his life he had just been lucky. he always said just lucky. dan inouye was not likely. he was a blessed man did he had worked to do here among us, and he stayed here until that work was done. as we are also told in ecclesiastes, there is a time to every purpose, and this was senator inouye
irene, his wife, talked about the solemnity of the event. the chaplain, security officers were there with him. minutes before he pass away, before he died, he shook the hands of friends and the family who surrounded him. he thanked the doctors, thank the nurses for their care and attention. he thanked his security detail for their protection over the years. he wrote notes detailing his blast which is minutes will 40 away.wayed told his wife, irene, i would appreciate my speaking before you...
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. >> irene, jennifer, ken, if my father were here saying, kid, you got good blood. jessica, henry clay, thaddeus stevens, charles sumner, robert byrd, general persing, general mcarthur, ten presidents, 31 in all lay in state, only 31 in the history of the united states of america under this dome. this is an honor to state the obvious that very few americans, some truly great americans never, ever received. in each and every american who's been granted the honor according to danny today, they have been granted it because they possess a particular quality that we view as uniquely american. it's thoroughly appropriate that our friend, danny, is granted this honor because he was in every sense the qint american possessing every virtue that we like to ascribe to our country. , the dop of danny's life, the country was emerging from a great war, a war that left the rest of the world in ruins, but placed america squarely in the center of world leadership for the first time in our history. yet on the horizon was the greatest economic depression this nation had faced or has f
. >> irene, jennifer, ken, if my father were here saying, kid, you got good blood. jessica, henry clay, thaddeus stevens, charles sumner, robert byrd, general persing, general mcarthur, ten presidents, 31 in all lay in state, only 31 in the history of the united states of america under this dome. this is an honor to state the obvious that very few americans, some truly great americans never, ever received. in each and every american who's been granted the honor according to danny today,...
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and the honor and integrity that we need -- that he brought to the job my heart goes out to his wife, irene, and his son, daniel ken inouye jr., and the many family, friends, colleagues and constituents for their tremendous loss. so aloha, senator inouye, thank you for your lifetime of service. while your passing has left us with a great void, we know that your legacy will continue to live on in the many accomplishments you leave behind and in the generations you've inspired through your service to our country. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from hawaii is recognized. ms. hanabusa: i yield such time as she may consume to my friend and colleague from hawaii, -- >> i yield such time as -- to my dear friend, colleen hanabusa. ms. hanabusa: thank you and thank you to my colleague from hawaii for doing this. i rise today in support of the resolution 839 which relates to the death of the honorable daniel k. inouye, senator from the state of hawaii. i know that as the most senior member of the united states senate, as the appropriations chair, and as a true war hero, senator inouye will b
and the honor and integrity that we need -- that he brought to the job my heart goes out to his wife, irene, and his son, daniel ken inouye jr., and the many family, friends, colleagues and constituents for their tremendous loss. so aloha, senator inouye, thank you for your lifetime of service. while your passing has left us with a great void, we know that your legacy will continue to live on in the many accomplishments you leave behind and in the generations you've inspired through your...
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my condolences go to his wife irene and the entire inouye family and to all who miss him greatly. you know, we come down to the session every day. we get the calendar of business. this one dated today. you look on all the list of the committees and you see the chairman and the members, but today his name is not there. after 41 years. my heart goes out to him, to truly the silent giant. i yield the floor. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i come to the floor today to pay tribute to an american hero, a great senator, an amazing man, and a dear friend, senator danny inouye. senator inouye dedicated his life to public service and through his hard and faithful work he has left his nation around the state that he loves so dearly far better in so many ways. we will all hear a lot about -- in the days ahead about the barriers that danny broke down over the course of his life. we will hear about his service in times of war and in peace, about his heroism, about his love for his family and state and country, and we'll
my condolences go to his wife irene and the entire inouye family and to all who miss him greatly. you know, we come down to the session every day. we get the calendar of business. this one dated today. you look on all the list of the committees and you see the chairman and the members, but today his name is not there. after 41 years. my heart goes out to him, to truly the silent giant. i yield the floor. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs....
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he and his wife, irene, his son, ken, and his daughter-in-law jessica. ahe stepdaughter, jessica, and a granddaughter named maggie. named after his first wife. they are in morning for a noble soul. he lived a long productive life e devastated by his passing. but we will all miss him. his legacy will live in the halls of the senate and the state of hawaii as long as history is written. his place in the history books will not fade. as the second-longest serving senator in our history, senator inouye's career in congress spanned the life of hawaii's statehood, elected to the senate in 1962. only robert byrd served longer. senator inouye's tradition of service began long before he came to the united states senate. he was working as a medical volunteer when japanese warplanes attacked pearl harbor. he was just a boy, a teenager. from the time he was just a kid, he wanted to be a doctor, a medical doctor, but a different fate awaited dan inouye. after the attack, as we all know too well, japanese americans were deemed enemy aliens and were therefore not subjec
he and his wife, irene, his son, ken, and his daughter-in-law jessica. ahe stepdaughter, jessica, and a granddaughter named maggie. named after his first wife. they are in morning for a noble soul. he lived a long productive life e devastated by his passing. but we will all miss him. his legacy will live in the halls of the senate and the state of hawaii as long as history is written. his place in the history books will not fade. as the second-longest serving senator in our history, senator...
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hey, we had a hurricane irene baby. is that tmi? at least we're not live on television right now. welcome back to "fox & friends" this morning. >> let's talk about the fiscal cliff. of course, it has all of washington and the country on tender hooks. there is always a theory that some people would actually want us to go over the fiscal cliff some democrats because they would finally get the defense cuts that they have been clamoring for and it would actually serve their purposes. i dismiss that. >> to be fair, we have even had some republicans who have said that that they want. members of the tea party don't want to have anything to do with -- they want us to go into default. they want us to face these problems. howard dean on the democratic side saying, look, if we don't do it, we have got this other plan and he talks about the fiscal cliff to what alisyn was just saying. listen. >> as you know, i believe the country would be better off if would get another revenueiff. to be serious about balancing the budget and get defense cuts which the congress will never vote for otherwise.
hey, we had a hurricane irene baby. is that tmi? at least we're not live on television right now. welcome back to "fox & friends" this morning. >> let's talk about the fiscal cliff. of course, it has all of washington and the country on tender hooks. there is always a theory that some people would actually want us to go over the fiscal cliff some democrats because they would finally get the defense cuts that they have been clamoring for and it would actually serve their...